In cold headwaters all across America, populations of unique and beautiful fish are winking out. Fish managers are fighting to save them, but anglers resist and the environmental community remains disinterested.

The state’s predator-control program is ill conceived, ineffective, and inhumane. What’s more, it has turned an enlightened resource agency and its talented staff of wildlife professionals into a national laughingstock.

Armed with media reports that state and federal scientists tried to lock up public land by "falsifying" lynx data, conservative politicians are lashing out at the Endangered Species Act. They angrily proclaim that there has been "unethical behavior" and "malicious activities." They're right.